Factor Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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Mina Kazanlieva

reunited with her family, who won the lottery for U.S. green cards and also moved to Princeton, NJ. Mina's interest in investing led her to Goldman Sachs, where she worked in the health-care sector, and Centerbridge Partners, where she... View Details

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

equity and buyouts, also touching on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to... View Details

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

together to solve this collection action problem: regulation, realization that this is a question of long-term survival for businesses, factoring climate into investment models, and focusing resources and... View Details

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

which it has opened up to the outside world—shapes those markets, and companies must consider those factors, too. The five contexts framework places a superstructure of key markets on a base of sociopolitical choices. Many multinational corporations look at either the... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

14 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020

evolve, and change the face of entrepreneurship and investing over the next two years and beyond. 4. Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS-MBA The MS/MBA curriculum builds upon students’ existing technical skills and, through the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

Programs An outdated regulatory system designed for the traditional banking system was one of a number of important factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis, Professor David Scharfstein says. “The financial system had evolved over 30... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog

environment or shifting strategic landscape-and develop an appreciation for the humility required to challenge and refine our beliefs, theories, and models. Identify and grapple with inescapable tensions and tradeoffs in strategic interactions, and think critically... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

venture capitalists might be more comfortable in investing in truly early-stage technologies. Q: What is the role of the buyout firm in the VC investing cycle, given the activity they and restructuring firms... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

rate of 10 percent a year for four decades—this is the highest sustained growth in real output of any country in the world. Q: Although your research is still ongoing, what appear to be some factors contributing to the country's success?... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

developed market, or battle for consumers in a bigger, more established market? Where do you locate your activities? "People rushed into China, and now wage rates are going through the roof," Collis says. Building a manufacturing plant is a long-term View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

allocated to sustainable funds that invest in companies with specific environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and goals. Since 2015, when the US Department of Labor began allowing pension fund... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s portfolio companies. Still others will be consultants or advisors to boards, or View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

New Releases

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen closely to customers, and View Details

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-border... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

success factors for managing business experiments at the “incubation moment,” which appear to improve the prospects of success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52307 forthcoming Strategy Science... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets

Lillian Too (MBA '76), formerly Kim Lim, is the executive chairman of her own publishing and investment company in Malaysia. She is the author of eight best-selling books on the ancient Chinese science of Feng shui (pronounced FUNG... View Details

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

ties to competitors impede innovation, and that this effect is moderated by several factors related to the intermediary's opportunities and motivation to leak important information. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Profile

Jennifer Hurford

information, distinguish what's relevant and what's not, and connect multiple factors in a nonlinear way, which is a lot like life. Life is messy. We're learning to work through the muck to get at the heart of issues as soon as... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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